Day five and tears streaming down my face again as I read of the amazing staff we have in our National Health Service (This is the NHS). Thank you for portraying our most valued and valuable asset with such style and candour, while provoking, in my case, a passion and emotion I never thought I had.
Jane Dodds
Welshpool, Powys
• Zoe Williams shares her interesting and revealing interview with two women who have recently been appointed as QC (23 January). In her opening paragraph, Williams raises the question: “Is the law a sexist profession?” However, in her third sentence she refers to her interviewees, Justine Thornton and Marina Wheeler, as “wife of Ed Miliband” and “Boris Johnson’s wife” respectively. The challenges facing women at the top? I rest my case.
Geraldine Lydon-Burke
Oxford
• You give plenty of front-page space to denunciations of Charlotte Rampling’s view that the Oscars row is racist to whites (23 January). In the same issue I see the Guardian is co-sponsor of a literary prize of £1,000 “open to black, Asian and minority ethnic writers” (Review, page 6).
Maggie Stearn
Oxford
• When my husband’s maiden aunt died, aged 82, he was disgusted to discover the enormous number of begging letters she’d been receiving from charities (Report, 21 January). These were in addition to the number of visits from antique dealers who would inveigle their way in and offer her £5 for family heirlooms. As an ageing woman, I realise I will continue to be prey for the rest of my life. No longer the prey of young men wanting my body, but of greedy men wanting my worldly goods.
Sara Neill
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
